Start Where You Are

Frontispiece: Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Photograph by Liza Matthews

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© 1994 by Pema Chödrön

Translation of The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind

© 1981, 1986by Chögyam Trungpa; revised translation © 1993 by

Diana J. Mukpo and the Na ̄landa ̄ Translation Committee. The

Sa ̄dhana of Ma ̄hamudra ̄© 1968, 1976by Chögyam Trungpa.

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Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada b0e 2p0.

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The Library of Congress catalogues the previous edition of this title as follows:

Chödrön, Pema.

Start where you are: a guide to compassionate living / Pema Chödrön.— 1 st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

isbn 978-0-8348-2116-

isbn 978-0-87773-880-0(alk. paper)

isbn 978-1-57062-839-9(pbk.)

isbn 978-1-59030-142-5(Shambhala Library)

1. Spiritual life—Buddhism.2.Buddhism—China—Tibet—Doctrines.

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